Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doctrine of Double Effect, and the Ground of Value  

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Kamm, F.M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 109 no. 3 (Apr. 1999), page 586-605.
Topik: Doktrin; Efek Ganda; Argument; Bunuh Diri; Velleman

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.9 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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In this article, I shall present three arguments for the permissibilty of physician-assisted suicide (PAS). and then examine several objections of a "Kantian" and non-Kantian nature againts them. These are really objections againts certain types of suicide. I shall focus on active PAS (e.g., when a patient takes a lethal drug given by a physician, in which case both physician and patient are active). I shall assume the patient is a competent, responsible, rational agent, who gives his being in physical discomfort (pain, nausea, etc.) as the reason for intending his death. I am assuming, therefore, the pain while a source of suffering does not undermine his rational agency in a way that threatens responsibility for choice. Current legal proposal for permitting PAS focus on procedures that determine the patient to be competent; hence they are concerned with showing that when (and only when) one knows that a still-rational being would die is PAS permissible. This insitence that we may only aid in the destruction of being once we have certified its high status may strike many as perverse.

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